DIRECTORATE FOR THE PLANNING OF PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS ACTIVITIES 05/A-2006 Directorate-General for the Presidency EN EN ABBREVIATIONS USED Political Groups PPE-DE Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats PSE Group of the Party of European Socialists ELDR Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Verts/ALE Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance GUE/NGL Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left UEN Union for Europe of the Nations group EDD Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities NI Non-attached Members Committees AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy BUDG Committee on Budgets CONT Committee on Budgetary Control LIBE Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs JURI Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market ITRE Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs ENVI Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development PECH Committee on Fisheries RETT Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism CULT Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport DEVE Committee on Development and Cooperation AFCO Committee on Constitutional Affairs FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities PETI Committee on Petitions http://www.europarl.ep.ec/bulletins (Intranet) http://www.europarl.eu.int/bulletins (Internet) \\Epades\public\bulletin\Activités Closed on : 08.05.2006 CONTENTS 3 PRESIDENCY Main decisions of the College of Quaestors....................................................................................... 6 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Appointments/resignations/end of Members' terms of office............................................................. 8 Membership of the political groups.................................................................................................... 9 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES Written questions.............................................................................................................................. 12 Question Time (B6-0017/2006)........................................................................................................ 48 Summary of Questions time - April 2006 ........................................................................................ 50 Written declarations.......................................................................................................................... 51 COMMITTEES Appointment of rapporteurs and draftsmen......................................................................... 58 OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS Commission documents....................................................................................................... 68 GENERAL INFORMATION Common Foreign and Security Policy Declaration on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism .......................... 76 Declaration on the occasion of the final session of the UN Commission on Human Rights ..................................................................................................................... 76 Declaration on the arrest and transfer of Thomas Lubanga ............................................... 78 Declaration on the parliamentary elections in Ukraine ...................................................... 79 Declaration on the arrest and bringing into custody of Charles Taylor ............................. 79 Declaration on access of humanitarian operations in Darfur ............................................. 80 Declaration on the 60th anniversary of the International Court of Justice ......................... 81 Declaration on Gambia ....................................................................................................... 82 Declaration on the Council Common Position 2006/276/CFSP of 10 April 2006 concerning restrictive measures against certain officials of Belarus and repealing Common Position 2006/661/CFSP .................................................................................... 82 Declaration on the adoption of the constitutional law in Bosnia and Herzegovina ........... 83 Declaration on the press incident in Burundi ..................................................................... 83 Bulletin 15.05.2006 - EN - PE 369.014 4 CONTENTS Declaration on the current political situation in Nepal .......................................................84 Declaration on the situation in Sri Lanka ...........................................................................85 Declaration on developments in Nepal ...............................................................................85 Declaration on the Darfur talks ...........................................................................................86 Declaration on worrying human rights developments in Iran in particular the case of Abdolfattah Soltani and the ten executions in Evin prison on April 19 .........................87 Declaration on the amnesty of convicted journalists by Algeria on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day ..............................................................................................88 European Economic and Social Committee Plenary Assembly of 20 and 21 April 2006.........................................................................89 ACTIVITIES OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT This document is available at : http://www.europarl.ep.ec/bulletins/postsession.htm (Intranet) http://www.europarl.eu.int/bulletins/postsession.htm (Internet) Bulletin 15.05.2006 - EN - PE 369.014 PRESIDENCY 5 PRESIDENCY Bulletin 15.05.2006 - EN - PE 369.014 6 PRESIDENCY MAIN DECISIONS OF THE COLLEGE OF QUAESTORS The Chairmen-in-Office of the College of Quaestors, have circulated the following communications to the Members of the European Parliament: No 16/2006 : Access facilities for groups of visitors (ten or more) invited by Members; No 17/2006 : Measures undertaken and envisaged in order to further improve the functioning of Parliament´s electronic mail system; No 18/2006 : Reimbursement of parliamentary assistance expenses - Forms for service provider contracts. Further information may be obtained from the Secretariat of the College of Quaestors in: Strasbourg : Salvador de Madariaga (SDM) Building, 6/20 Tel. 74195 Brussels : Paul-Henri Spaak (PHS) Building, 8b/66 Tel. 43722 ____________________ Bulletin 15.05.2006 - EN - PE 369.014 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 7 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Bulletin 15.05.2006 - EN - PE 369.014 8 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT APPOINTMENTS/RESIGNATIONS/END OF MEMBERS' TERMS OF OFFICE OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF A ROMANIAN OBSERVER IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT At its sitting of 26 April 2006 Parliament took note of the appointment of Mrs Silvia Adriana TICĂU as an Observer for Romania in the European Parliament, to replace Mr Şerban NICOLAE (RO/PSE) with effect from 10 April 2006. _____________________ END OF THE TERM OF OFFICE OF SIX MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEN PARLIAMENT ELECTED IN ITALY At its sitting of 27 April 2006 Parliament took note of the election of Mr Fausto BERTINOTTI (GUE-NGL / IT) Mrs Emma BONINO (ALDE / IT) Mr Lorenzo CESA (PPE-DE / IT) Mr Antonio DI PIETRO (ALDE / IT) Mr Enrico LETTA (ALDE / IT) Mr Giovanni PROCACCI (ALDE / IT) to the Italian Parliament and, under Article 7(2) of the Act concerning the election of the representatives of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage and Rule 4(1) of the Rules of Procedure, established the end of their term of office in the European Parliament, with effect from 28 April 2006. ____________________ Bulletin 15.05.2006 - EN - PE 369.014 MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 9 MEMBERSHIP OF THE POLITICAL GROUPS At its sitting of 4 April 2006, Parliament was informed that the announcement recorded in the minutes of the sitting of 15 March 2006 on membership of the IND/DEM Group had been withdrawn. Consequently the following Members Mr Mario BORGHEZIO Mr Umberto BOSSI Mr Dariusz Maciej GRABOWSKI Mrs Urszula KRUPA Mr Bogdan PĘK Mr Mirosław Mariusz PIOTROWSKI Mr Boguslaw ROGALSKI Mr Matteo SALVINI Mr Francesco Enrico SPERONI Mr Witold TOMCZAK Mr Andrzej Tomasz ZAPAŁOWSKI are to be considered as having continued to be members of the IND/DEM Group since 15 March 2006. _____________________ Bulletin 15.05.2006 - EN - PE 369.014 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES 11 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES Bulletin 15.05.2006 - EN - PE 369.014 12 MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES WRITTEN QUESTIONS (Situation at 04.05.2006) Author Subject No Margie Sudre European Union Solidarity Fund P-1249/06 Esko Seppänen Redundancies at UPM-Kymmene P-1250/06 Bernat Joan i Marí Small scale slaughterhouses E-1251/06 Bernat Joan i Marí Disposing of animal by-products as waste E-1252/06 Manolis Copyright and access to knowledge in the developing E-1253/06 Mavrommatis countries Georgios Karatzaferis Non-compliance with EU decisions by Community E-1254/06 officials Georgios Karatzaferis Non-compliance with EU decisions by Community E-1255/06 officials Georgios Karatzaferis Problems concerning public buildings in Greece E-1256/06 Georgios Karatzaferis Take-up of funding in Greece at an all time low E-1257/06 Georgios Karatzaferis Discrimination against gypsies and those with special E-1258/06 needs in Greece Georgios Karatzaferis Televised witch-hunts undermining democracy and E-1259/06 freedom